Manna in the Desert and the Bread of Life

Old Testament: Exodus 16:14-15

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was.

New Testament: John 6:49-51

Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. ... I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

The connection

Christ draws this contrast Himself in the Bread of Life discourse: manna sustained the body for a day and its recipients still died, but the true bread from heaven gives life everlasting. Points directly to the Eucharist.

Moral sense

Depend on God daily; manna could not be hoarded, and neither can grace.

Anagogical sense

The eternal banquet where hunger itself finally ends.

Warrant

Checked in the Greek: artos and eremos are shared, the bread named at Exodus 16:15 in the Septuagint and at John 6:50 and 6:51, in the desert at Exodus 16:14 and John 6:49.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1094.

The verses

Exodus 16:14 · Exodus 16:15 · John 6:49 · John 6:50 · John 6:51

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